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Urs App - The Birth of Orientalism - 9780812223460 - V9780812223460
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The Birth of Orientalism

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Description for The Birth of Orientalism Paperback. Modern Orientalism was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of the Western encounter with Asia, its underlying dynamics, and the discovery of Buddhism and Hinduism. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 568 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 826.
Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of this protracted genesis, its underlying dynamics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Encounters with Asia
Condition
New
Weight
826g
Number of Pages
568
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223460
SKU
V9780812223460
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About Urs App
Urs App is a researcher with the Swiss National Research Fund.

Reviews for The Birth of Orientalism
A genuinely important book. It has the potential to change the way that we think about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European encounters with the East, and about how Eastern ideas deeply influenced the thought of formative Western thinkers. -Jonathan Silk, University of Leiden Urs App's magnificent book rises as a massive-and massively erudite-bulwark against this common assumption [that Orientalism was ... Read more

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